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Agenda for Class 06: Tuesday, October 18, 2010

Main Topics/Goals: Begin to Think about Inquiry as a Teaching/Learning Opportunity

Activities

• Two-Person Share Out: Llewellyn's Ten Questions
  • What questions do YOU have about using "scientific inquiry" in your classrooms?
• The Coffee Can Investigation
  • What do we know about investigating motion and forces?
  • Stage 1: Investigating Familiar Motion
    • Background: How do we study an object's motion?
    • Using a sensor to access basic motion graphs; Good graphs and Bad graphs; Interpreting graphs qualitatively and quantitatively.
    • Discussion: What did we find out? How can use use these tools to investigate complex motion?
  • Stage 2: Investigating Something More Complicated: Free Fall*
    • Discussion: What did we find out? Where There Any Surprises?
  • Stage 3: Can we use our tools and Newton's Laws to Understand a the Coffee Can Force?
    • Discussion: What do we know about the Coffee Can Force and How do we know it?
• Closing
  • Another useful resource: Planning and Facilitating Classroom Inquiry

Homework

• Due on Saturday:
  • Observe/Reflect Journal Entry #4
• Due next week:
  • Readings
    • Passmore et al 2009: Model-Based Inquiry
      

      PassmoreEtAl 2009.pdf
      

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    • Chiappetta & Koballa, Chapter 3: Planning to Teach Science (
      

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    • Fried, Ch 5: The Greatest Obstacle.